A drug-driving Derbyshire scout leader was caught with ecstasy in his system

Chesterfield magistrates' court.

Jon Cooper

Published:09:28Tuesday 11 December 2018

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A drug-driving scout leader who was caught by police with ecstasy in his system has been banned from the road.

Chesterfield magistrates’ court heard on December 5 how Benjamin Raisin-Moss, 20, of Church Lane, Mapperley, Ilkeston, was caught at Heanor Leisure Centre car park, at Hands Road, with the drug in his blood stream.

Prosecuting solicitor Ann Barrett said: “It was Saturday, September 29, in the early hours of the morning about 12.45am.

“Police were called to the location due to some males around a vehicle and the report said they looked suspicious and officers attended and saw a vehicle driving out with five people in it.

“They stopped the driver and asked him to go back to the car park and he seemed under the influence with an intoxicant with wide pupils and he was slurring his words and his eyes were rolling back.”

A drug swipe test came back positive, according to Ms Barrett, and a blood sample was taken for analysis and came back showing that there was MDMA, or ecstasy, in Raisin-Moss’s blood.